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Tag Archives: Media Center
Flickr and Media Center
I wanted to harness Media Center's ability to display photos, but don't actually store anything locally; a while back I made a call to use Flickr for my photo storage, thus ensuring that I had an off-site backup of all my photos.
This was something of a problem. Flickr don't actually give you an easy way [...]
Media Center problems
I hope this isn't a sign of things to come. My first night of properly using the Media PC, and I've hit a bit of a snag.
I set Wanted to "record series", and I noticed that the first episode was complaining that there wouldn't be enough space to record it. There quite clearly is – [...]
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Don’t fear Sky?
I'm not afraid of Sky, I just really don't like them very much.
Ashleigh brought to my attention an article on The Register called Don't be scared of Sky. It's an interesting read, and contains these gems:
"Churn (cancellation) levels are higher than ever, and the cynical majority in the industry reportedly believe the new [...]
Media Center: Moving forward
So the aerial install is done and my Media PC has existed quite nicely for the last week, recording random crap whenever I asked it to. I had one tense moment when the machine rebooted itself overnight, but a quick check of the event log showed that this was "intended functionality" – thanks Windows Update! [...]
It’s alive! (nearly)
My Media Center PC continues to move slowly towards full capacity.
I'm still not quite there though. Last night I did some more fiddling. I've found that setting the s-video output on my newly installed Nvidia card to NTSC actually produces a better picture than using PAL. I've also found that using the MCE Config Reset [...]
Media Center: Teething problems
I took my first steps down the magical green brick road that is Windows XP Media Center Edition last night.
It was all going so well; I'd fitted my DVD drive, and new graphics card, installed Windows, and connected everything up to my television using my new scart to s-video cable. Windows looked surprisingly good. Crap [...]
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